LIVE NIRVANA Concert Chronology November 05, 1991 - Astoria Theatre, London, UK
Artist
- NIRVANA
- Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar)
- Krist Novoselic (bass)
- Dave Grohl (drums, backing vocals)
Crew
- Alex MacLeod (tour manager)
- Craig Montgomery (sound engineer)
- Ian Beveridge (monitor engineer)
- Nic Close (guitar technician)
Buyer
- Riverman
- Dave Mclean
- Alex Weston
Schedule
- Load In
- …:…
- Soundcheck
- …:…
- Doors
- 19:00
- Captain America Showtime
- 17:30
- Television Personalities Showtime
- 20:30
- NIRVANA Showtime
- 21:45
Soundcheck
- No Info
Set
- Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
- Aneurysm
- Drain You
- School
- Floyd The Barber
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- About A Girl
- Polly
- Breed
- Sliver
- Lithium
- Love Buzz
- Come As You Are
- Been A Son
- Negative Creep
- On A Plain
- Blew
- ENCORE
- Dumb
- Pennyroyal Tea
- Endless, Nameless
Set Range
Circulating Recordings
AUD #1 incomplete
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- Unofficial CD [Firework Night]
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 43 min / 9.0
- Notes:
- • Missing everything after "Love Buzz".
- • Everything after "Love Buzz" on the Firework Night CD is AMT #1 in lower quality..
AUD #2a
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Sony WM-D6
- Lowest Generation:
- ANA(1) > CDR
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 72 min / 8.5
- Notes:
- • Less complete, but lower generation than AUD #2b.
- • "Come As You Are" cuts in and has a cut in "Endless, Nameless".
AUD #2b
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Sony WM-D6
- Lowest Generation:
- ANA(2) > FLAC
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 72 min / 8.5
- Notes:
- • Circulated in May 2007.
- • More complete, but higher generation than AUD #2a.
AMT #1
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- VID8(M) > MKV/FLAC
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 72 min / 7.0
- Notes:
- • Circulated in December 2017.
- • Amateur video, shot from an elevated position, back right of the venue (far-shot).
- • "Smells Like Teen Spirit" cuts out.
AMT #2 incomplete
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- VHS(x) > DVDR
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 72 min / 8.0
- Notes:
- • Amateur video, shot from an elevated position on the right (close-shot).
- • While copies labeled VHS(1) are also in circulation, they are of much lower quality. It is likely that the VHS(1) generation is incorrect.
PRO #1 incomplete
- Equipment:
- Soundboard > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- VHS(x) > MP4
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 22:57 min / ??
- Notes:
- • Video surfaced online March 2020.
- • Single camera PRO-shot video, shot partially from an elevated position from the back of the venue, partially from the right/front and partially from the right/left/back on stage. Has timecode box covering part of the screen.
- • Includes only "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Breed (cuts in and cut), "Lithium" (first attempt, cuts in), "Lithium", "Love Buzz" (cuts out), "Come As You Are" (cuts in and has a lot of cuts), "Been A Son" (has a lot of cuts and cuts out), "Negative Creep" (cuts out), "On A Plain" (cuts in), "Blew" and "Dumb" (cuts out).
- • After "Love Buzz" the taper disconnects the microphone from the soundboard and moves around the venue, leaving the camera recording only with the built in microphone. This lasts until the start of "On A Plain", in which the start of the song has built in audio, some seconds without audio, then the taper, again, connects the microphone into the soundboard.
- • During "Breed" and "Negative Creep", it's only footage of the crowd.
- • Clips appear in the "You Know You're Right" music video and have been broadcast on MTV.
PRO CLIP #1a incomplete
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- Official DVD/LD [Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!]
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 15 sec / 9.5
- Notes:
- • Single camera PRO-shot video, includes 15 seconds of clips of "Lithium".
- • Clips appear in the "You Know You're Right" music video and have been broadcast on MTV.
PRO CLIP #1b incomplete
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- VHS(2) > DVDR
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 02 min / 9.0
- Notes:
- • Single camera PRO-shot video, featured on a MTV Europe News and includes clips of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Lithium" and a short clip of "Endless Nameless".
- • Clips appear in the "You Know You're Right" music video and have been broadcast on MTV.
PRO CLIP #1c incomplete
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- VHS(x) > YouTube
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 33 sec / ?
- Notes:
- • Single camera PRO-shot video, featured in the unaired MTV special, "Kurt Cobain 10 Years Later" and includes clips of "Pennyroyal Tea" and a short clip of "Endless Nameless".
- • Most of the audio is covered up by interviews and "Endless, Nameless" has its audio replaced with the audio from "Pennyroyal Tea".
- • Posted on YouTube on June 29th, 2022.
- • Clips appear in the "You Know You're Right" music video and have been broadcast on MTV.
Uncirculated Recordings
SBD #1
It is rumored that the show was recorded.
Notes
No Info
Press Reviews
- Review from a UK magazine called "Kerrang!", published on November 16th, 1991.
- Review from a UK magazine called "New Musical Express (NME)", published on November 16th, 1991.
- Review from a UK newspaper called "The Independent", published on November 7th, 1991.
Memorabilia
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